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TheCacklingCrow rated The Illustrated Man (Voyager Classics): 4 stars
The Illustrated Man (Voyager Classics) by Ray Bradbury
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring …
TheCacklingCrow rated Hounded: 4 stars
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
Hounded is the first novel in Kevin Hearne's urban fantasy series, The Iron Druid Chronicles. It was released on May …
TheCacklingCrow rated Ink & Sigil: 4 stars
Ink & Sigil by Kevin Hearne (Ink & Sigil, #1)
Al MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white moustache, an appreciation for craft cocktails …
TheCacklingCrow rated The Southern Book Clubs Guide to Slaying Vampires: 4 stars
TheCacklingCrow rated Piranesi: 3 stars
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set …
TheCacklingCrow rated The Hollow Ones: 4 stars
TheCacklingCrow rated The Starless Sea: 5 stars
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
FAR BENEATH the surface of the earth, upon the shores of the Starless Sea, there is a labyrinthine collection of …
TheCacklingCrow rated The Man in the Iron Mask: 3 stars
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas, E. L. James (The d'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)
A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue.
In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's celebrated cycle of the Three Musketeers, …
TheCacklingCrow rated Fool: 5 stars
Fool by Christopher Moore (Fool, #1)
Pocket, King Lear's fool, sets out to straighten out the mess the mad king has made of the kingdom and …
TheCacklingCrow rated Breakfast of champions: 2 stars
Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …
TheCacklingCrow rated Shakespeare for Squirrels: 4 stars
Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore (Fool #3)
Shakespeare meets Dashiell Hammett in this wildly entertaining murder mystery from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore—an uproarious, hardboiled …
TheCacklingCrow rated The Bear and the Nightingale: 4 stars
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden (Winternight Trilogy, #1)
"In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow …
TheCacklingCrow rated The master magician: 2 stars
Charlie N. Holmberg: The master magician (2015)
The master magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
Throughout her studies, Ceony Twill has harbored a secret, one she's kept from even her mentor, Emery Thane. She's discovered …
TheCacklingCrow rated The glass magician: 2 stars
Charlie N. Holmberg: The glass magician (2014, 47North)
The glass magician by Charlie N. Holmberg
Three months after returning Magician Emery Thane's heart to his body, Ceony Twill is well on her way to becoming …